International Dublin Literary Award

2005 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerThe Known WorldEdward P. JonesFrom Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave...Amazon2005 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistDeafeningFrances ItaniAmazonElleDouglas GloverAmazonGardening at NightDiane AwerbuckAmazonPhantom Pain (translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett)Arnon GrunbergAmazonThe Fortress of SolitudeJonathan LethemAmazonThe Good DoctorDamon GalgutAmazonThe Great FireShirley HazzardAmazonThe Half Brother (translated from Norwegian by Kenneth Steven)Lars Saabye ChristensenAmazonWillenbrock (translated fro...

2006 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerThe MasterColm Tóibín“Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love. Beautiful and profound...Amazon2006 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistAn Altered Light (translated from Danish by Anne Born)Jens Christian GrøndahlAmazonBreaking the TongueVyvyane LohAmazonDon't Move (translated from Italian by John Cullen)Margaret MazzantiniAmazonGraceLandChris AbaniAmazonHavoc in Its Third YearRonan BennettAmazonMaps for Lost LoversNadeem AslamAmazonThe Closed CircleJonathan CoeAmazonThe LogogryphThomas WhartonAmazonThe Swallows of Kabul (translate...

2019 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerIdahoEmily RuskovichWinner of the International Dublin Literary Award One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the stacking. ...Amazon2019 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistA Boy in WinterRachel SeiffertAmazonCompass (Translated from French by Charlotte Mandell)Mathias ÉnardAmazonConversations with FriendsSally RooneyAmazonExit WestMohsin HamidAmazonHistory of WolvesEmily FridlundAmazonHome FireKamila ShamsieAmazonLincoln in the BardoGeorge SaundersAmazonMidwinter BreakBernard MacLavertyAmazonReservoir 13Jon McGregorAmazon

2008 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerDe Niro's GameRawi HageDe Niro's Game is the stunning winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the very first novel by up-and-coming Lebanese literary star Rawi Hage, also author of Cockroach. Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown up on the Christian s...Amazon2008 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistAndreï MakineThe Woman Who Waited (translated from French by Geoffrey Strachan)AmazonDreams of SpeakingGail JonesAmazonLet It Be Morning (translated from Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger)Sayed KashuaAmazonThe Attack (translated from French by John Cullen)Yasmina KhadraAmazonThe Speed of Light (translated from Spanish by Anne McLean)Javier CercasAmazonThe Sweet & Simple KindYasmine GooneratneAmazonWint...

2009 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerMan Gone DownMichael ThomasOn the eve of this thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed black narrator of Man Gone Down finds himself broke, estranged from his white wife and three children, and living in the bedroom of a friend's six-year-old child. He has four days to come up with the mo...Amazon2009 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistAnimal's PeopleIndra SinhaAmazonRavel (translated from French by Linda Coverdale)Jean EchenozAmazonThe Archivist's StoryTravis HollandAmazonThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJunot DíazAmazonThe Burnt-Out Town of Miracles (translated from Norwegian by Don Shaw and Don Bartlett)Roy JacobsenAmazonThe Indian ClerkDavid LeavittAmazonThe Reluctant FundamentalistMohsin HamidAmazon

2011 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerLet the Great World SpinColum McCannOne August morning in 1974, a tightrope walker makes his way, through the dawn light, between the World Trade Center towers. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in this stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people....Amazon2011 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistAfter the Fire, A Still Small VoiceEvie WyldAmazonBrooklynColm TóibínAmazonGaloreMichael CrummeyAmazonJasper JonesCraig SilveyAmazonLittle Bird of HeavenJoyce Carol OatesAmazonLove and SummerWilliam TrevorAmazonRansomDavid MaloufAmazonThe LacunaBarbara KingsolverAmazonThe VagrantsYiyun LiAmazon

2012 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerEven the DogsJon McGregor“A ferocious book, at once intense and alarmingly unsentimental.” —James Wood, The New Yorker On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies...Amazon2012 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistA Visit from the Goon SquadJennifer EganAmazonLandedTim PearsAmazonLean on PeteWilly VlautinAmazonLimassolYishai SaridAmazonMatterhornKarl MarlantesAmazonRocks in the BellyJon BauerAmazonThe Eternal SonCristóvão TezzaAmazonThe Matter with MorrisDavid BergenAmazonThe Memory of LoveAminatta FornaAmazon

2013 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerCity of BohaneKevin Barry* Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Book Award in the First Novel category * A blazingly original, wildly stylish, and pulpy debut novel "City of Bohane, the extraordinary first novel by the Irish writer Kevin Barry, is full of marvels. They are all literary ...Amazon2013 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel Shortlist1Q84Haruki MurakamiAmazonAndrew MillerPureAmazonCaesarion (translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett)Tommy WieringaAmazonFrom the Mouth of the WhaleSjónAmazonSwamplandia!Karen RussellAmazonThe Buddha in the AtticJulie OtsukaAmazonThe Faster I Walk , The Smaller I AmKjersti Annesdatter SkomsvoldAmazonThe Map and the TerritoryMichel HouellebecqAmazonThe Tragedy of ArthurArthur PhillipsAmazon

2014 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerThe Sound of Things FallingJuan Gabriel VásquezNo sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogot than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret....Amazon2014 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistA Death In The Family (translated from Norwegian by Don Bartlett) (My StruggleKarl Ove KnausgårdAmazonAbsolutionPatrick FlaneryAmazonQuestions of TravelMichelle de KretserAmazonThe Detour (translated from Dutch by David Colmer)Gerbrand BakkerAmazonThe Garden of Evening MistsTan Twan EngAmazonThree Strong Women (translated from French by John Fletcher)Marie NDiayeAmazonTraveller of the Century (translated from Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia)Andrés NeumanAmazon